Reliance Telecom and its three executives against whom the trial court has framed charges for facing trial in the 2G spectrum scam will move the Delhi High Court for quashing of the charges. A statement from Reliance Telecom said that it would challenge the charges framed against the company and its three executives - Gautam Doshi (Group Managing Director),Surinder Pipara (Group's President) and Hari Nair (Senior Vice President)- and also pursue their bail applications in the Supreme Court. "With the framing of charges completed,the three Reliance executives will pursue their bail petitions pending before the Supreme Court,which are listed for hearing on October 31,2011," the statement said. The company said the substantive charges framed on Reliance Telecom and three executives remain limited only to the alleged abetment of cheating by others as part of an alleged conspiracy. "No substantive charge has been framed under Section 409 (criminal breach of trust) on Reliance Telecom and three executives," it said. Special CBI judge O P Saini fixed November 11 for commencement of the trial after all the accused refused to plead guilty to various offences. Noting that it is a preliminary stage in the commencement of the trial process,Reliance Telecom said that the framing of charges was not a finding of guilt by the special court. The company and its three executives are very confident of mounting a successful defence against the charges framed in the trial proceedings,it said in statement. The substantive charges framed on Reliance Telecom and the three executives,the company said,are on the same lines as per the original charge sheet,and no new charges have been framed. The company said that the order of framing charges has no impact on the licenses,operations and business of Reliance Telecom or any other group company. It also said that the company and the three executives and/or any other person from Reliance Group have not received any of the licences issued in January 2008,nor derived any benefit from the same.
